The Uncompahgre Valley - Couverture souple

Davis, Theajo; Huff, Royal C Whitey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0738580716 ISBN 13 : 9780738580715

Editeur : Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2010

Synopsis

Settlers of European heritage arrived in the Uncompahgre River Valley after the Ute tribe was ordered to reservation lands in Utah by the federal government in 1881. The pioneers staked out properties and established covenants. The Uncompahgre River carried the usual annual melt from the San Juan Mountains through today's Ouray, Montrose, and Delta Counties toward its confluence with the Colorado River near Grand Junction. But the settlers' crops required more water than the river or irrigation ditches could bring. Engineers assessed the failed farms and abandoned villages in the wake of the Uncompahgre Valley's over-settlement and looked east of Montrose to the Black Canyon, cut by the nearby Gunnison River. They drilled the Gunnison Tunnel to bring the snowcap melt from the Continental Divide's western slopes to the Uncompahgre Valley, creating one of the Rocky Mountain region's most fertile valleys. The tunnel, completed in 1909, was the biggest irrigation project up to that time.

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À propos de l'auteur

Authors Theajo "Tj" Davis and Royal C. "Whitey" Huff Sr. selected these vintage images to depict the heritage of ranching and farming life throughout the Uncompahgre Valley. Many descendents of the early settlers lent knowledge and photographs to visualize for the 21st century what the early settlers saw.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0738580716
• ISBN 13: 9780738580715
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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